Jean-Paul Aron
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Jean-Paul Aron (1925-1988) was a French writer and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease.
Jean-Paul Aron was born in Strasbourg on May 27, 1925. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. His death was on August 20, 1988. He is now buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.